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(No Model.)

' O. OOLVIN.

CLOTHES POUNDER.

Patented Feb. 6,1883.

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iUNrren STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ORSON GOLVIN, OF SOHOOLGRAFT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO \VILLIAM '1. SMITH AND WILLIAM FANOKBONEB, OF SAME PLACE;

POUNDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 271,602, dated February 6, 1883.

Application filed June 9. 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ORSON OOLVIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Schoolcraft, county of Kalamazoo, State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Clothes-Founder, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has for its object certain improvements in devices for supporting the pounder in the tub.

In the drawings forming a part of this specification, Figure l isa side elevation of the device for supporting the pounder, connected with a tub, a portion of said tub being broken away, showing the pounder located therein; Fig. 2, a top view with the pounder and its arm or handle removed from the support, and Fig. 3 a rear view of the poundersupport in Fig. 1.

Bar E supports in a horizontal position the platform a, with which it is pivotally connected at e. The rear end of this platform a is supported by an adjustable brace, t, pivotally connected at t, and having its lower end slotted, and secured to the support E by means of set-screw It. By this means the platform a and its burden may be adjusted to a horizontal plane, whatever may be the varying angle of the side of different tubs with which the pounder-support is connected. Bar E is provided with hooks f c, catching over each end of the staves of the side of the tub, Fig. 1. The upper hook, f, is provided with a set-screw, 01, located in a slot of bar E, Fig. 3. by which means said hook is adjusted vertically. Lever dengages serrations p of bar E, and is connected with hookf by means of pivoted rods n a. By this means the hooks f c are made to firmly grasp the side of the tub by working the lever d up and down, when, by setting the screw a, the pounder-support is firmly held, securely connected with the tub 'I.

c is a carriage, pivoted to platform a at I? in a manner I0 swing laterally. Said carriage c is provided with rollers c c, over which and under flanges m m the arm-extension a of handle B is niovably located, thus obviating great friction of parts. Arm-extension a is provided with an upright, P,in a slot of which is pivoted handle B at 7.

D is the pounder-handle, having-theupward slotted extension F, in said slot of which .is pivotally connected said handle B at 4.

The platform of and its carriage may be supported by a standard connecting with its center and independentof the tub, and so arranged that the pounder can be swung from one tub around into another on the opposite side of the standard-support.

Any pounder-base desired maybe used with the support shown but a style deemed very practical by me is shown at P. 1' is a lip or roofover the vertical perforations, which prevents the water from spurting upward.

In the operation the. water'rises or enters the center space bounded by rim 3 and in the space betweentthe rims l and 2, forming a vacuum in the space between rims 2 3. This secures greater ease in operation, more pounding efl'ect on the clothes, greater agitation of the water, with no sloshing and sufficient suction, and the water flows from the space between rims 2 and 3 over rims 2 and 3 into the space of which they form a boundary, as before explained. The carriage c is provided with a hooked flange, m, catching under the curved end of the platform (L to prevent the rear end of the carriage from unduly rising during the operation of pounding the clothes.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. A standard provided with the hooks for grasping the side of the tub, the slot in which the upper hook is adjust-ably located and held by the set-screw, the serrated portion, and the ratchet-lever connected with said adjustable book by the pivotally-coupled rods, all substantially as set forth.

2. A clothes-pounder support consisting of a standard for connecting with a tub, a platform pivotally connected with its upper end, a brace-arm pivoted to said platform and adjnstably connected with the standard, and a carriage pivotedon said platform, provided with the friction-rollers and flanges, forming a way' for the extension-arm of the pounderhandle, all substantially as specified and shown.

ORSON GOLVIN.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM '1. SMITH, WM. FANcKBoNER. 

